Product Review Product Review - CyGlass This week, we review VSOC advanced threat detection from CyGlass, a US company acquired in February 2020 by Nominet.

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The Security Issue:

Recent guidance from both the UK and US government highlighted the need for improved visibility of network traffic to avoid the effects of an increasingly aggressive threat landscape. The guidance, which specifically references the importance of greater visibility and control to stop serious breaches and loss of data.

With big names like Easyjet and Virgin Media making the news for all the wrong reasons, data security is a hot topic and enforced home working makes it all the more of an issue.

When companies like these suffer security breaches, it must send a shudder through the SMB sector leaving security teams wondering that if a company that big can get breached, how can smaller companies stop it happening to them?

The Solution:

CyGlass addresses this demand for greater visibility and control over network traffic in its VSOC service, which identifies and alerts security teams when anomalies occur. It continuously analyses all network traffic to learn what is normal and what’s not, sending alerts when any suspicious behaviour is detected.

Not only will CyGlass identify and alert, but it can also take action automatically to disable users or by blocking traffic at the firewall when serious anomalies are identified.

No other hardware, software or people are required, so this is an ideal product for small businesses and companies with limited security resources. And CyGlass continuously learns as behaviours change, identifying new areas of concern to further enhance network protection.

CyGlass features include:
  • Dark Threat detection – identifies new risks as they occur
  • Minimise False Alerts – applies context to help teams focus on largest risks
  • Insider Threat – detects malicious threats and human error
  • Critical Asset Protection – prioritises most valuable assets
  • SOC Productivity and Threat Hunting – assist steams to focus on highest risks
  • Rogue IoT Devices – identifies devices presenting security risks
  • Compliance for Small Financial Institutions – helps demonstrate network control
Compelling Reasons to Buy:

If the impressive array of features isn’t good enough, then its affordability and ease of implementation are certainly good reasons to buy this product.

1. Price
Price

 

98%

A fraction of the price of its established competitors, CyGlass is affordable for SMB’s with limited budgets and its extensive feature set mean there’s no security compromise.

2. Ease of implementation
Ease of implementation

 

96%

CyGlass can be deployed in no time and takes minimal effort for security teams. With the technology sitting in the AWS cloud, all that’s required is access to your network logs.

3. Heritage
Heritage

 

94%

The CyGlass technology is proven military grade, having been incubated in the most rigorous environments and delivering AI, machine learning and machine reasoning based anomily detection

4. Critical Features
Critical Features

 

98%

Government expert guidance is for greater visibility and control of network traffic and that’s what you get with CyGlass.

5. Compliance
Compliance

 

100%

As CyGlass learns your network, it identifies network behaviour, establishing a set of critical baselines and policies and issuing alerts you when they’re violated.

CyGlass is one of our ‘Must Have’ products for SMB’s and is currently available at no cost, no contract and no fuss. What’s not to like?

Find out more about the CyGlass VSOC service here.

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